The upcoming low-power chips are positioned as solutions for drones, robots, Internet of Things (IoT) products, and other embedded applications. Intel says they’ll also be designed to work with the company’s RealSense ZR300 depth-sensing camera. That could mean the chips will also be used for virtual reality or augmented reality devices… or maybe the camera will just help drones and robots keep from bumping into things.

Intel says the processors will use the latest version of the company’s Gen 9 graphics and Intel also plans to offer new developer tools in a “Media SDK for embedded Linux for IoT.”

We should learn more about Intel’s plans for the next-gen Atom chips on August 17th… but at this point, I’m more interested in learning when the company will release Celeron and Pentium Apollo Lake processors. Those are the chips that will likely show up in next-gen tablets, notebooks, and 2-in-1s as replacements for the Braswell chips that power current devices like the new HP Stream 11, Stream x360, and Stream 14 laptops that will hit the streets later this month.

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Uh, no Brad… the PC World Article is basically just using ATOM in the same sense that I argued it with you as the name of the Architecture to make things simple and not confuse people on what is being discussed, regardless of final product branding. There’s nothing there that actually states they’ll be still using ATOM as the final name branding. The actual Intel brief states… This talk will inform participants on the next-generation Intel® Atom™ processor-based platform While the PC World article has things like the reference to ATOM for SoFIA, despite the fact it’s a hybrid SoC. The current IoT products from Intel are also primarily based on the sub-category processor from Intel called Quarks, the Intel Curie board being a prime example and one of the two people giving the Intel Brief worked on Intel’s present Quark based products, Edison, etc. for IoT… So, if they… Read more »

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